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Google Pressure Cookers And Backpacks, Get A Visit From The Cops
The Atlantic Wire ^
| August 1, 2013
| Philip Bump
Posted on 08/01/2013 10:16:26 AM PDT by Biggirl
Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backpack; backpacks; benghazi; cops; fastandfurious; google; impeachnow; irs; michelecatalano; pressurecooker; pressurecookers; tech
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:16:26 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:18:29 AM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Biggirl
How'd the government know what they were Googling?If that was a serious question from someone, the answer is easy - Google tells them.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:19:57 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Biggirl
Use that DuckDuckgo.com browser.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:20:52 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Biggirl
If a million peopel decided to search for those terms, what would happen to their little spy grid?
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:21:41 AM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Biggirl
Atlantic it is probably true, but I do not give credence to anything from Atlantic.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:22:47 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: GraceG
If a million peopel decided to search for those terms, what would happen to their little spy grid?
I dunno, but I would hope that all those FBI agents would say muchas gracias for their windfall of massive overtime.
To: Biggirl
Anybody still think they’re not looking at everyone and everything?
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:28:15 AM PDT
by
jurroppi1
To: Biggirl
Did they shoot their dog?..............
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:28:37 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: Buckeye McFrog
The FBI’s too busy to look into the IRS targeting conservative groups... they must have overtime up the waazoo... They’re busy looking for that elusive middle class, church going, conservative father of 3 who they’re sure is a lone wolf...
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:29:04 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Sob stories make bad law...)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Guess we know why they didn’t have time to check out the Boston bombers or the Foot Hood nut. They want a white American - middle aged, middle class guy.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:30:22 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Sob stories make bad law...)
To: GraceG
it said they do about 100 visits a week. so around March of 2205 delete your web history because they'll be knocking.
Answer the door and say, oh, that a while back, i just deleted my browser history...sorry.
come back and ping me, we'll laugh together.
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:31:22 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
To: Biggirl
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:37:04 AM PDT
by
bolobaby
To: Biggirl
so this is how the government spends its time?
Sending SIX officers to the home of someone who googled backpacks and pressure cookers?
not one, not even two (ok for safety) but SIX? On the First visit?
Did they have no info at all on these people and their background that would have told them they are just a family?
Is their brother over in Saudi Arabia on the terrorist watch list?
Please tell me there is more to this than SIX officers sitting around monitoring for terorist to google pressure cookers...
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posted on
08/01/2013 10:53:48 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
To: Biggirl
Not a likely story. If they showed up at my door I’d tell them to get off my property.
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:04:39 AM PDT
by
TheDon
(Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
To: Biggirl
Thanks for bringing the prices down on pressure cookers. :-)
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:15:34 AM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: Biggirl
That's not nearly as bad as posting on FR. I wonder when our visits will begin?
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:17:46 AM PDT
by
Defiant
(In the next rebellion, the rebels will be the ones carrying the American flag.)
To: TheDon
“If they showed up at my door I’d tell them to get off my property.”
Bad idea. 6 professional trained cops vs. 1 amateur gun enthusiast. That would make a lot of awful holes in your body.
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:17:50 AM PDT
by
SgtBilko
To: Biggirl
And I thought they were only keeping the Meta Data, not the actual material or information. You mean the government lied to us again ?
To: Biggirl
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posted on
08/01/2013 11:38:44 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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